CVE-2010-3838

medium

Description

MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.92, 5.1 before 5.1.51, and 5.5 before 5.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) via a query that uses the (1) GREATEST or (2) LEAST function with a mixed list of numeric and LONGBLOB arguments, which is not properly handled when the function's result is "processed using an intermediate temporary table."

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64840

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2010-3817

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640858

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0345

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0170

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0105

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1397-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1017-1

http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/security/2011/TLSA-2011-3j.txt

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43676

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0164.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0825.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:223

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:222

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2143

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4723

http://secunia.com/advisories/42936

http://secunia.com/advisories/42875

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jun/msg00000.html

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-6.html

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-51.html

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-92.html

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=54461

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-01-14

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01326